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The National Association for Healthcare Quality recently  a  quantifying how investing in the health care workforce to advance quality and safety improves health care facilities’ clinical and financial outcomes. NAHQ offers a validated process to build workforce capabilities while driving measurable cost savings and revenue gains. Findings include Northern California-based Kaiser Permanente’s 194% improvement in cost avoidance, resulting in $6.5 million in savings over two years; Irving, Texas-based Christus Health’s 50% reduction in serious safety event rates. Christus Health says NAHQ helped it  catheter-associated infections and central-line infections, decrease mortality and shorter lengths of stay, and reduce its pay-for-performance penalties. (NAHQ , 6/2/25)